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Data Management at University of East London

DataCite client meeting

Yesterday at the British Library, as one of 15 new members since the last meeting of DataCite clients managed by BL. We heard from Cambridge Crystallography Data Centre, which applied over 500,000 new DOIs to existing CIF crystal structure files in short order! And the ODIN project – a collaboration between ORCID and DataCite – has developed tools to make it easier to relate researchers and data. We will look at maximising the interaction in our new data repository once we are up and running. STFC assigns DOIS to the software it produces (the product, and each version and each release) to make citation easier, and there was discussion about the value of assigning DOIs to grey literature: good to remind everyone that not all data is a) structured b) numerical. We will look to assign DOIs to appropriate material in ROAR where UEL is the publisher, such as the working papers that various UEL research centres produce.

One issue to consider is where in a workflow a DOI is created and minted – before or after publication? I can see that authors would find it useful to know a DOI ahead of time to incorporate it into their texts, but this has to be mediated by our repository software which controls the coining/minting of DOIs. One to explore.

Overall, it was a very worthwhile meeting, with a chance to hear from other institutions applying DOIs to their research data. And the bottle? A reminder of the “Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK” exhibition, showing at the British Library until 19 August.